I know I know I know I have been gone a little while, but it is baseball season and those are you who know me know that I’m a baseball coach and I am knee-deep into a baseball season. So please forgive me, but I am checking in with you guys to say hello to tell you that I miss you and I hope you are all doing well.

“Nobody really talks about what a father goes through when divorce hits him out of nowhere.

One day you’re a husband, a dad, a provider, a protector—

and the next day, the ground disappears beneath your feet.

No warning. No countdown. Just loss… and responsibility at the same time.”

“Today, I want to talk about the divorce a father never saw coming—

not from a place of bitterness,

but from a place of truth.”

“There’s a specific kind of pain that comes with loving someone deeply… and realizing you can’t give them what they need. Not because you don’t want to. Not because you don’t care. But because you’re simply not capable of it.”

We don’t talk about this enough.

We talk about effort.

We talk about sacrifice.

We talk about “if you really love someone, you’ll find a way.”

But what happens when you can’t?

What happens when you want to fix it, provide it, heal it, protect them from it—and you just don’t have the tools?

Today’s episode is about accepting that truth without turning it into guilt, shame, or self-hatred.